On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com> wrote:
Hi,

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> My proposal is that koha-* commands shouldn't be Debian (.deb) specific.

I agree, there is nothing that seems inherently Debian-specific to the
Koha instance and cluster management scripts.  Making them available
for other platforms is a worth goal.

> And
> make the install schema used for packages the default/standard on
> git/tarball install. The same should happen to multiple instances setups.

I'd like to know in a little more detail what you mean by this.  For
example, I would be opposed to (say) mandating the package's current
default of GRS-1 for bib indexing as opposed to DOM.  Now if there are
things that can be done to make it easier to keep the package's
installation defaults in line with Makefile.PL, I'm for implementing
them.

What I propose is fixing those standing divergences (things available in tarball installs should seaminlessly be available on packages setups) and then make Makefile.PL arrange stuff like packages do. Packages then should do nothing special about files on the filesystem (debian/rules should only link to system jquery for instance, but not much more than that).

Regards
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